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The Raisons d’être of Managed Futures

By Cliff Asness – AQR Capital Management: The Federal Reserve has an explicit dual mandate. Managed Futures strategies have an implicit one—specifically, 1) deliver positive...

Gaining Momentum: Where Next for Trend-Following?

By Graham Robertson, DPhil – Man AHL: Trend-following indices, such as the SG Trend and BTOP50, have posted their best year-to-end-August returns since 2000,...

Systematic Credit: Accessing Another Asset Class

By Irena Siyi Xiong, Quantitative Researcher – Arabesque IA: Systematic credit has drawn more limelight over the years as electronic trading of various credit...

An Update on A Contemporary Evaluation of Key Alternative Investments

By Dan Rizzuto and Linus Nilsson: In our September 2021 article (HedgeNordic Systematic Strategies, 2021) we sought to evaluate CTAs, Risk Premia, and Hedge...

If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Austrian CTA manager SMN is clocking in at an impressive gain of 85 percent with their SMN Diversified Futures Fund over...

Trend Following: A Regime-Agnostic Strategy

London (HedgeNordic) – The first half of 2022 will be remembered as an exceptional environment for systematic managers who specialize in trend-following, commonly known...

Take Emotion out of the Equation

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Money managers frequently operate in the context of risk and uncertainty, even more so in a market environment coloured by out-of-control...

Lynx Stays True to Main Objective

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Many trend-following strategies have flourished in 2022 amid a persistence of larger trends across several asset classes. The most successful trend...

A Year of Crisis Alpha for Brummer Multi-Strategy

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Multi-strategy managers acknowledge that different investment strategies have different return characteristics and that performance can vary across strategies and time. Therefore,...

Harvesting the Crypto Vol

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Volatility is a feature of most asset classes, as it is for cryptocurrencies. While most investors fear volatility, with the conventional...

Real Assets: AP4’s True “Alternative”

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The historically low bond yields in the decade following the 2008 financial crisis have led many institutional investors to look outside...

European Real Estate in the New Economic Climate

London (HedgeNordic) – Real estate has potential to at least keep pace with inflation. “Outside the British Isles, European commercial real estate rents are...